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Description: | A corroded fragment from a cast copper-alloy hooked mount of post-medieval date. The fragment consists of the lower part of the mount, including the hook and a roughly cast copper-alloy ring retained in it (Dia.: 11.0mm). The mount appears to have broken at the lower rivet hole; there is evidence of the hole and iron corrosion product surrounding it on the upper surface suggests at the composition of the rivet. There is an incised transverse line below the hole and a further line above the hook. The inward-turning hook has been bent slightly to one side as a result of old damage. Comparable hooked mounts can be found illustrated in Margeson (1993, 39; refs.: 257, 258) where they are dated to the period either side of 1600AD. Such mounts were probably associated with sword belts. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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